Su Hao didn't completely understand Han Qian's thoughts, but he always felt that the distance between himself and Han Qian was too far, not to mention that he also had an innocent and lovely child daughter-in-law, so he shouldn't have gone to see the thousand grains in the bowl, so he could only pretend to be stupid for some things. He pondered, Han Wen is not an old fool, let his daughter out for a walk, let the wind go, and when he goes back, he should find a big family to enter the family and marry his daughter. There is really no need for him Su Hao to wade into such troubled waters.

Sending Han Qian back to her residence, Su Hao began to get busy, and it was not a simple matter to engage in field surveying and mapping.

The village where the surveying team is stationed is called Fuyuan Village, but the whole village does not look rich at all. The word rich in the name of the village actually refers to the rich water at the edge of the village, and the village itself is so poor that it rings.

There are only about 30 households in Fuyuan Village, and the average land owned by the village is less than one acre, and most of them are thin fields on the gentle slopes of the hills, and the output is very small. If it weren't for the fact that they could hunt some wild animals in the mountains, plus the income from chopping firewood and collecting medicine, the people in this village would not have survived at all.

When he first arrived in the village, Su Hao once went into a farmhouse to take a look, and according to his estimates, the property of the whole family was not worth one or two silver. The clay bowl used for eating is missing, the bed is a thin quilt with patches and patches, and the house is left in an unknown era, broken and unbearable, and even the pig barn in the plain area is inferior.

When Su Hao led the soldiers into the village, the whole village came out to watch. According to Li Changyi Shizhong, this is the most lively day in the history of the village, because there is actually a team of more than 100 people coming. Yi Shizhong also proudly recalled a story passed down by his grandfather's grandfather, saying that when his grandfather and Chen Youliang fought against Poyang Lake, they were defeated and fled. However, Yi Shizhong also admitted that even that time, the soldiers brought by the great grandfather were only a few dozen, and they were not as majestic as Su Baihu's team.

Su Hao didn't think that he had the qualifications to compete with Zhu Yuanzhang, and he didn't plan to find someone in the local area to get some dew. When he entered the village, he once roughly observed the eldest girls and little daughters-in-law on both sides, and found that they were all malnourished, with yellow faces and thin muscles, so that he could not arouse his interest at all. This is still the time of Chengping for a long time, if it is left in the chaotic season of the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, the women in this village should probably be even more hateful, right? Thinking about it this way, this old Zhu is really a heavy taste.

In order to avoid disturbing the people, the survey team basically did not requisition the houses, but cleared a flat land outside the village and set up a temporary camp composed entirely of tents. In fact, even if they want to disturb the people, there is no people to disturb, and even the Li Changyi Shizhong family only has two shaky tile houses, and the other houses are even more uninhabitable.

Su Hao's original idea was to let Han Qian's master and servant and the five invited embroidery girls live in the village, but after seeing the situation in Fuyuan Village, he temporarily changed his mind and took out two tents from the Kanyu camp and distributed them to them, so that they could be set up next to the camp as a place to live. Considering that men and women do not kiss, Su Hao specially arranged to build a barrier with tree branches to separate men and women. Those embroidery girls invited are all married sisters-in-law, but they are not so hypocritical, but they suffer Han Qian and the red lotus master and servant, most of the time, they can only shrink in their tents, and they can save being peeped by hundreds of soldiers and students as soon as they come out.

For the arrival of the survey camp, the villagers at first just held the psychology of watching the excitement, but soon they found out that this team was actually here for their own benefit. Because not long after the survey camp was set up, Su Hao issued a notice to the whole village through Yi Shizhong:

The survey camp recruits guides, and each day of labor and food silver is 40 Wen!

40 wen yuan is not a small amount, based on the current silver price, one tael of silver is about 800 wen yuan, and you can buy 2 stone white rice. 40 Wen is equivalent to 1 bucket of rice, if you save a little, it is enough for a family to eat for seven or eight days. Where can I find such a good errand?

As for the word guide, everyone didn't understand it at first, and thought it was a complicated type of work, but after explaining it to everyone in Yi Shizhong, everyone suddenly realized, isn't it just a leader? Everyone is familiar with the surrounding mountains and rivers, and what is it difficult to lead the way for the military masters, even if you have to help them carry something, it is easy for the mountains to enter.

How did the fact that you can earn money by walking like this fall on our Fuyuan Village? This must be because Mother Chen saw that my life was too hard, so the manifestation sent us a noble entry.

How could such a good thing be missed in vain, and everyone in Fuyuan Village who had some mobility flocked to the barracks and asked to be a guide.

Looking at the dozens of villagers, young and old, who were gathered in front of his tent, Su Hao was puzzled, and he asked Yi Shizhong, who was standing beside him: "Yi Lichang, you don't want to say that these people want to be guides, right?" ”

"Back to the hundred masters, they are all here to sign up as guides." Yi Shizhong replied respectfully, he knew that although the young man in front of him was young, he had the title of a hundred households. In the case that a small flag is enough to make people in awe, a hundred households, it is just like a zhōngyāng official sent by the emperor himself.

Su Hao pointed to an old man and said, "This old man, I'm afraid he's seventy years old, right?" ”

"Back to the hundred households, the grass people are called Yi Xisun, and they are fifty out of seventy this year." Although the old man was old, his ears were very smart, and when he heard Su Hao say about him, he didn't wait for Yi Shizhong to answer, he reported to his family first.

Su Hao bowed to that Yi Xisun and said, "Oh, Uncle Yi, at your age, I'm afraid it's better to take care of your life at home, this guide's messenger has to go over the mountains and mountains, but it's very hard." ”

Yi Xisun said: "Master of a hundred households, the grass people are not afraid of hard work, when the grass people pick herbs, how can they climb seven or eight mountains a day and walk fast." ”

"You're talking about now?" Su Hao asked incredulously.

Yi Xisun turned his head and pointed to the mountain behind him, and said, "Yes, yesterday the grass people also climbed to the peak of the Old Immortal Peak and picked two Coptis chinensis. ”

"Uh...... All right. Su Hao looked at Yi Xisun carefully, and saw that he was only wearing a single coat, his body bones looked tougher than his own, and he was full of temperament when he spoke, it seemed that he could really go over mountains and mountains. He left Yi Xisun, pointed to a little boy who didn't look more than ten years old, and said to Yi Shizhong: "Isn't this little brother a little younger, I'm afraid it's a little difficult to be a guide, right?" ”

The child also learned from Yi Xisun's appearance, his neck stiffened, and replied: "Master Baihu, I can walk, as long as I am fed, it doesn't matter how far I walk." ”

"How much can you eat to your heart's content?" Su Hao asked.

The child turned his head and saw the rice bowl in the hand of a soldier of the Kanyu Battalion, and said, "I usually eat a bowl of rice like this at home." ”

"It's not a lot of food." Su Hao was relieved.

"But...... If there is enough rice, I can eat five bowls without a problem. The child then added.

"Five bowls of ......" Su Hao was speechless, with such a big bowl, he could eat two bowls of rice, such a big child, he actually said that he could eat five bowls, what is this.

"Let the lord of the hundred households laugh." Yi Shizhong said with a smiling face, "In our small village, there is no land around, and the grain harvested all year round is not enough to eat, so we can only rely on hunting, collecting medicine or something, and then exchange some food to come back." Half-grown children like this are all full and hungry, so ......"

"In this mountain, the family is so poor." Su Hao sighed with emotion, "Okay, all these villagers, we have hired them." In addition, I also have to ask the chief to arrange a few sisters-in-law who are diligent and quick to help us cook and wash clothes...... It's halved, it's 20 a day, how about it? ”

"Of course it's good!" Yi Shizhong was overjoyed, and hurriedly ran back to the village to send a notice.

Hao Tong walked to Su Hao's side and asked, "Su Baihu, isn't it that these villagers are too poor and make you feel pity?" When did we hire handymen in our battalion, and didn't the soldiers do all the things like cooking and laundry? ”

Su Hao looked back at Hao Tong, nodded and said, "That's right, I think these are really pitiful, so I want to find something for them to do, so I can earn some pocket money." I was also born in a peasant family, but I have never seen a village in our Zhegui Township that is so poor. ”

Hao Tong said: "What is this, if you go further into the mountains, there are poorer villages than this." If you go to the border of Yunnan, the suffering of the border people there is especially worse than here. If you are sent to be the commander of Yunnan, you will not have enough money to put into it. ”

"Is Yunnan poorer than this?" Su Hao asked, he knew that the people in the mountainous areas were poor, but after seeing these poor people at the foot of Luo Mountain, he really couldn't imagine what a poorer place would look like.

Hao Tong said: "I have inquired, the people of this Fuyuan Village only have few fields, but they can usually go up the mountain to cut firewood, and there is a market 20 miles away, and a load of firewood can be sold for more than 20 yuan, in exchange for six or seven liters of rice." If you are lucky, you can hunt a wild boar in the mountains, and you can sell it for more than 1 tael of silver in the market, and the whole family can be like the New Year. But on the border of Yunnan, the surrounding hundreds of miles are wild land, and the border people have nowhere to trade things, isn't it even more bitter? ”

"That's right." Su Hao said, "Then you guys are stationed over there, and you have suffered a lot, right?" ”

Hao Tong said with a smile: "It's okay, although General Deng is short-tempered, he loves soldiers like a son, and he has never owed a soldier in the matter of eating and drinking." The soldiers we recruited locally, because they were grateful to General Deng for giving them a full meal, were very brave when they went into battle, and compared them to our Jiangxi soldiers. ”

"It's an interesting thing to send strong troops from poor areas." Su Hao said.